Newsletters
- AFRC Concludes 2025 Annual Meeting, “The Time is Now”
- Washington, DC Update
- Reconciliation
- Senate Fix our Forests Act
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 44: Travis Joseph on Annual Meeting, Trump EO’s and more
- USDA Secretary Issues Memorandum on Timber Production
- AFRC Leads Coalition in Challenge to FWS’s Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat Designation
- Services Release Proposed Rule Removing ‘Harm’ from the Definition of Take
- Ninth Circuit Upholds Condition-based Management for the Twisp Project
- AFRC Welcomes New Forest Supervisors
- AFRC Meets with Region 1 Forests
- Washington Legislature’s Approved Budget Impacts State Trust Lands, Cuts Funding for Forest Health
- Register Now: AFRC Annual Meeting Welcomes Keynote Speaker USFS Associate Chief Chris French
- Washington, DC Update
- AFRC submits comments on President Trump’s Executive Orders on timber and lumber production
- Senate Hearing on Fix Our Forests Act
- AFRC makes trip to DC.
- Settlement Reached in Challenge to the Pintler Face Project
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 43: Congressman Cliff Bentz
- Big Win From Magistrate Judge DeSoto in the Challenge to the South Plateau Project
- Injunctions Dissolved in the Challenge to End of the World and Hungry Ridge Projects
- Judge Aiken Issues Two Decisions Involving Challenges to BLM Projects
- Integrated Vegetation Management for Resilient Lands Project
- N126 Late-Successional Reserve Landscape Scale Project
- Survey Aims to Identify Oregon Forestry Workforce Needs
- Dollar Project Shrinks But Moves Forward
- President Trump Signs Historic Executive Orders on U.S. Timber Production, U.S. Lumber
- Register Now: AFRC Annual Meeting
- Washington, DC Update
- Tom Schultz appointed USFS Chief
- Kathleen Sgamma appointed BLM Director
- Forestry Legislation
- CEQ Withdraws NEPA Regulations
- Federal Workforce Cuts
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 41: Forestry for the Future, Part 2, Blake Manley
- Northwest Forest Plan Amendment Comment Period Closing March 17
- CEQ Releases Interim Final Rule Revising its Implementing NEPA Regulations
- Recent Oral Arguments and Opinions in the Ninth Circuit
- Twisp Restoration Project and condition-based management
- Black Ram Project and unauthorized road use
- Helena-Lewis & Clark Revised 2021 Forest Plan
- Favorable Ruling from the Supreme Court Limiting Recovery of Attorney Fees
- Murphy Company Hosts Rogue River-Siskiyou Staff for Mill Tour
- Tonata-Trout Project Needs Implementation
- Understanding Wood Products: AFRC Partners with Industry Expert at Malheur National Forest Meeting
- Plaintiff Required to Pay a Bond if They Want to Halt the Freedom Timber Sale
- In Memoriam: Glen Duysen
- Washington, DC Update
- Trump Transition
- House Passes Fix our Forests Act
- Reconciliation
- Registration Open: AFRC Annual Meeting at Skamania Lodge, April 22-24
- Fish & Wildlife Service Retains Threatened Status for Grizzly Bear
- Video: Why it’s Time to Delist the Grizzly Bear
- Parties Settle in the Challenge to the Bulldog Restoration Project
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 41: Forestry for the Future, Part 1 Dr. Beth Dodson, University of Montana
- Okanogan-Wenatchee Restoration Struggles Continue
- BLM Proposes Implementation of Barred Owl Removal Strategy
- Washington CPL Upthegrove “Pauses” DNR Timber Sales
- AFRC in the News
- Washington, DC Update
- Key Committee Assignments Announced
- Save the Date: AFRC Annual Meeting Set for April 22-24, 2025
- The AFRC Podcast: The AFRC Podcast: New government, opportunities for forestry and wood products
- Northwest Forest Plan Committee Meets in Bellingham, Washington
- AFRC Successfully Intervenes in the Challenge to BLM’s Blue and Gold Project
- AFRC Successfully Intervenes in the Challenge to the Forest Service’s Youngs Rock Rigdon Project
- Fish and Wildlife Service Revises Lynx Critical Habitat
- AFRC Welcomes Steve Brink to Team AFRC
- AFRC Attends R-1 Contractor, BLM, and MLA Meetings
- AFRC in the News
- Washington, DC Update
- Lame Duck Session
- Committee leadership changes
- Trump Transition
- D.C. Circuit Court Holds that CEQ Has No Legal Authority to Issue NEPA Regulations
- The AFRC Podcast: Dr. Nate Anderson, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station on forestry and wood products as climate solutions
- Forest Service Moving Forward to Amend Northwest Forest Plan
- Malheur National Forest Takes Action Following 120,000-acre Falls Fire
- AFRC Visits Pintler, Burnt Gold Projects
- Washington Board of Natural Resources Approves Mature Forest Sales
- AFRC’s Motion to Intervene Granted in the Challenge to the Central/West Slope Project
- Proposed Sáttítla National Monument Raises Wildfire Risk Concerns in Northern California
- The AFRC Podcast: Episode 38- Forester/Author Ethan Tapper on How to Love a Forest
- Tenth Circuit Hears Arguments in Challenges to Two National Monuments
- Federal Timber Purchaser Committee Meets in Bend Oregon
- Western Oregon BLM 2024 End-of-Year Summary
- Lassen National Forest Expands Use of Integrated Resource Stewardship Contracts for Hazard Tree Mitigation
- BLM Announces Federal Advisory Committee for its Public Lands Rule
- AFRC Visits Eastern Washington Forests
- Washington Department of Natural Resources Continues Work on Eastern Washington Sustainable Harvest Calculation
- Washington DC Update
- Fix Our Forests Act
- Continuing Resolution
- Upcoming Lame Duck Session
- Forest Service Budget Woes
- The AFRC Podcast: Episode 37- Understanding the impacts of NEPA litigation
- Northwest Forest Plan Amendment DEIS Now Expected in November
- AFRC Submits Comments on National Old-Growth Amendment DEIS
- Ninth Circuit Upholds Three Forest Health Projects on the Fremont-Winema National Forest
- The Gold Butterfly Saga—Why Changes to NEPA are Needed
- Forest Service Fiscal Year 2024 Wrap-up
- BLM Achieves Minimum ASQ for FY 2024
- AFRC Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Seminal Tree Fall Liability Case in Washington
- Washington Court of Appeals Denies Request to Stay Freedom Timber Sale
- Nick Smith Receives 2024 W.D. Hagenstein Communicator Award
- Northwest Forest Plan Amendment DEIS Pushed to October
- Washington Primary Election Results
- The AFRC Podcast: Episode 36- Explaining the Barred Owl Strategy
- Updates on BLM’s Public Lands Rule—Committee, Litigation, and Guidance
- AFRC Files Amicus Brief in Support of the Twisp Project and Condition-Based Management
- Lonerock Fire on Umatilla National Forest Destroys Thousands of Acres of Forests, Wildlife Habitat, Riparian Areas
- Kootenai Program Getting Back on Track
- Middle Fork Ranger District Pre-Solicitation Meeting for Upcoming Roadside Hazard Removal Project
- Washington DC Update
- Appropriations
- Permitting legislation
- 6th Emerging Leaders Program, Sept 12-13, Springfield
- The AFRC Podcast: Travis Joseph on finding consensus to modernize the Northwest Forest Plan
- Report: Pacific Northwest Anti-Forestry Groups Dominate NEPA Litigation Nationwide
- U.S. Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Deference and Redefines When the Statute of Limitations to Bring Actions under the Administrative Procedures Act Begins
- Fish and Wildlife Service Finalizes Barred Owl Removal Strategy
- Favorable Decision on the Pintler Face Project Permits Harvest Activities to Proceed
- Favorable Ruling on the Freedom Timber Sale Amidst Sweeping Challenges to DNR’s Timber Program
- AFRC and National Coalition Challenge BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule
- AFRC Visits Eastern Washington Forests